Premiere Classe Soissons
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Towed through the tunnel.
... of the water. Quite a feat. it was used in the war by the Germans who used it as their near impregnable bunker and operations comand centre. they tied a string of barges together. there are some boats that have painted their names on the walls but i am certain somewhere on a small piece of wall there will be a carveing, Fritz was here Tied up in a dead little town called Vendhuil The charts showed this small cutting on the wrong side of the canal. Navionics has some ...
The Last Few Weeks
Well I have gotten numerous complaints (mostly from my mother) that I haven't updated my blog very recently. So, I will update you all on my last few weeks. After returning from Italy, I still had one week of vacation before returning back to school. One day, my sister, mom, grandmother and I took the train into Lille, one of the biggest cities in the North of France. We went shopping and I prepared myself for the winter ahead: I bought a ...
Big empty canal, and the deckie rocked chauny
... popped in and met some locals. rae went off to dance and I chatted to a guy from marseilles who was here to take his kids to karate championships or something. Tried to speak to his uncle who spoke the local "pattoir" accent. no hope. but my new mate said dont feel too bad. he cant understand most of it either. rae chatted to one of the band who said she could come play for the last set. so she toddled off and got her ukelaly and harmonica. the ...
The promised land is busy
... charts there is no stopping for a looong way so i decided to call it quits for the day. Sitting in the marina i soon realised its a very busy canal. Every 20 mins or so a barge goes past. its a bigger canal so passing them isnt too hard. The locals here said where we plan to go is much busier!!! this could get exciting. this blog used to put the pics in the blog. Sorry but now it posts them by themselves so to see the photos look at previous posts which are just posts wit one ...
Remember the Somme and Danny Styles
... stone to visit World War I sites, particularly around the Somme. My maternal Grandmother’s brother, Danny Styles, had been killed, it was thought, at the Battle of Pozieres so we sat down to work out a plan of attack for a trip to Villers Bretonneux Memorial where we knew his name was on the list of soldiers whose bodies had never been found and hoping to visit the area of the Moquet Farm where the Australian War Memorial information had said it was likely that he had met ...